, 1887-04-21
ODDS N ENDS.
Stray Leaves From a ReDorter's
Note Book,
Gathered During the Past Twenty.
Four Hours.

viii Carleton and company will shortly
appear in CHEYENNE.
Many citizens are actively engaged in
making their gardens.
There are nearly l, 300 brands on record
in the county clerks office.
Burlington Heights IS a good nam for
the new addition to the city.
1t is reported that the Great Western
corral has been sold for s. 5000.
The Burlington & Missouri engineers
are actively engaged east of the city.
S. +. Powell, piano tuner from Denver,
is in town. Leave orders at Warren's.
The Evans street sewer is completed
from Eighteenth to Twenty-fourth street.
Still another addition to the city of
Cheyenne will be made in the course Of a
few days.
The regular weekly exercises of the NJ.
E. lyceum will take place tonight at the
Methodist church.
Movements are on foot for the organi
cation of another gun club in Cheyenne
and also a base ball club.
Sam Sagassar, a harmless sid fellow,
but who has been in Jail Yor several
months on general principles, was re-
leased yesterday.
Three ordinary DRINKS were judicially
disposed of in Judge Fishers court yes
terday, one of them paying up and the
other two being calaboosed.
The Cheyenne Street Railway company
is required by the ordinance to signify
their acceptance of the terms imposed by
the ordinance within ten days.
The school election, which is now close
at hand, has begun already to cause some
comment and speculation, and candidates
or their friends r sbeing heard FROM
The Shakesperian anniversary exercises
which were to have been held at the
Methodist church this evening have been
postponed for one week, and regular lyce-
.um exercises are to be held.
ID, W. Gill, receiver in the Johnson
Mccormick directory case, is canvassing
the city in the performance of his trust,
and is not only delivering to old subscrib-
ers, but is obtaining many new ones.
All of the old buildings owned by J. X.
Jeffrey, with the exception of the small
brick and the building Just north of the
Stock Journal Office, have been leveled to
the ground, and the work of rebuilding
will begin to-day.
Since the recent heavy rains there has
been plenty of water in Crow creek; the
lakes aIe filling up, and no difficulty need
be apprehended on this account for the
balance of the season. even if it should be
an exceedingly dry one.
DR.. W. A. Wyman, county superin-
tendent of public schools, has, in accord
ance with petitions for that purpose,
divided school district No. ) (west OF Fort
Laramie) so as to make two districts out
of the territory, the new district being
numbered II.
John f. Carroll, local editor of the Sun,
yesterday presented w. A. Richards with
a fine large pencil, about two feet Icing
and three-fourths OF an inch in diameter.
Mr.. Richards returned his thanks by fall
ing up against Johnnie, who had to be
assisted home-so the boys say.
The United States signal observer re-
ports as follows: Maximum temperature
yesterday, $50; minimum temperature,
80; highest wind, % miles per hour f;
direction, south. At 3 p. m. the tenn
perature at Salt Lake was 36o, Denver 6lo,
Omaha GO, North Platte SO, Yankton
co..
The Cheyenne land Office received yes
terday from Washington an additional
map Of the located route of the Union
Pacific & Western Colorado railroad. This
completes the definition of the line so far
as Wyoming is concerned, aud includes
twenty miles along the windings of the
North Platte nearest the Colorado line.
The road is intended to be a branch Of the
Union Pacific, leaving the main line at
Fort Steele.
Fonce Reims casually called Fonce
Ryan, who went up to the p~enitentiary
for seventeen years from this county, and
who is now in the Lincoln penitentiary,
ant a pardon and has written to Gov
ernor Thayer, OF Nebraska, on the sub.
ject, and Governor Thayer has written to
Judge Fisher, of this city, in regard to
Fonce's case. AS the governor of Ne
braska has no Jurisdiction over Wyoming
convicts, he can do nothing in the case.
Quite a ''scrimmage'' occurred a night
or two ago at one of the saloons kept by tt
colored man at the west end, the principal
participants being George Stevens and
Henry Williams, both colored men. Yes
terday Stevens was arraigned before Judge
Fisher, charged with an aggravated as
sault and battery, but as the evidence was
very conflicting and it appearing that
Stevens probably acted in self defense he